Bed spring frame having adjustable hooks



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BED SPRING FRAME HAVING ADJUSTABLE HOOKS Filed Dec. 16, 1955 sua/l JNVENToRs, /V/coLA fama/NTA BY JOSEPH f f/vco fwww F) 7" TOR/VE V5.

United States Patent O BED SPRING FRAME HAVING ADJUSTABLE HooKs Application December 16, 1955, Serial No. 553,582 3 Claims. (Cl. 5-132) This invention relates to bed frames, and especially to frames that are made up of structural iron or steel elements, such as angle irons.

It is common to provide a rectangular frame of this character, formed of a pair of side rails and end bars or rails welded together or otherwise permanently or detachably joined. Upon such a frame, a bed spring may be supported. Hooks or brackets are attached to the frame or rails, either at one end or both, for supporting the frame upon bedposts. The brackets are arranged to be accommodated in narrow slots in the posts, and caused to engage one or more pins extending across the slots. Since these bedposts are attached either to the headboard or footboard, or to both, these brackets must be accurately spaced to provide appropriate engagement with the posts or the pins carried by the posts. Furthermore, since the space between the one slot in a post to the other slot in the post connected to the same board is not necessarily identical in headboards or footboards, it is advantageous to adjust the spacing of the hooks to comply with the post spacing.

It is one of the objects of this invention to provide a simple and sturdy adjustable bracket or structure.

This invention possesses many other advantages, and has other objects which may be made more clearly apparent from a consideration of one embodiment of the invention. For this purpose, there is shown a form in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the present specilication. This form will now be described in detail, illustrating the general principles of the invention; but it is to be `understood that this detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, since the scope of this invention is best defined by the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, partly in vertical section, of a bed spring frame incorporating the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, taken along a plane corresponding to line 2 2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view, taken along a plane corresponding to line 3-3 of Fig. l.

In the present instance, the bed frame is shown as including the side bars or rails 1 (only one of which is shown) and the end bars or rails 2. All of these bars are made from angle iron having vertical anges 3 and 4 depending from the horizontal anges of the angle iron. The horizontal anges are directed inwardly of the frame and are, in this instance, rigidly attached as by welding 5. This welding serves to join at the corners of the frame the overlapping horizontal ilanges of the angle irons 1 and 2.

Both the head and foot ends of the frame may be similarly joined in this manner, to form a rigid frame.

A bed element 6 is indicated in Fig. 1, supported upon the frame. This may be either a spring or mattress, or a combination of both. Alternatively, the horizontal flanges may serve as anchors for spring elements to convert the frame into a spring structure.

At the head or foot end of the frame, posts, such as 7,

2,845,636 Patented Aug. 5, 1958 posts may. be joined by a headlboard or footboard 8 (Fig. 2). The bed frame is arranged to be supported by the aid of these posts; brackets of various types may be Iused for this purpose. In the present instance, each post 7 is provided with anarrow vertical slot 11 across which extend one or more pins 10. These pins 10 are intended to be engaged by a bracket structure having a hook member 14 entering into the narrow slot 11 and having depending portions 15 forming recesses for the pins 10.

The hook member 14 is made of sheet metal and is formed integrally with a body 13, as well as with a portion 12 connecting the hook 14 with the lbody member 13. This portion 12 serves to join the oset elements 13 and 14. The body member 13 may have stiiener elements 16 formed by an upsetting operation. Furthermore, to provide a relatively large area of contact between the hook structure and the inner surface 17 of post 7, pads 18 are provided at each end of the body 13, as by bending the ends of the body member 13.

The lbody member 13 and the integrally formed bracket or hook member 14 are so supported with respect to the bed frame that it may be adjustable in a lateral direction. In this way the hooks 14 can be made to register accurately with the post 7; for example, the hooks will enter within the narrow slots 11.

In order to adjustably support the hook or bracket structure, use is made of an angle support 19 having a short arm or leg Ztl, parallel to rail 1. This short arm 20 is welded, as by welding 21, to the body 13. The long arm or leg 22 of the support extends transversely of rail 1, through a slot 23 in the vertical ange 3, and lies close to the vertical flange 4 of the angle iron 2. Adjustably mounting this leg 22 upon the ange 4 are a plurality of bolts 24 extending through the ange 4, and through elongated slots 25 of the leg 22. The bolt and slot connection makes its possible to adjust the lateral position of each of the hooks or brackets mounted at the end of the bed frame structure, in a direction transverse to rail 1. Preferably lock washers 26 may beinterposed between the leg 22 and the nuts 27, engaging the bolts 24.

The inventors claim:

1. In combination: a bed frame having side rails and end rails, said rails being rigidly connected, at least one of the side rails having a slot adjacent an end thereof; a bracket structure for attaching the rail to a bed post, and having a leg extending through said slot, as well as a leg for supporting the side rail, said second leg being parallel to the side rail; said first leg lying adjacent the inner side of the corresponding end rail; and a slot and bolt connection between the first leg and said end rail.

2. In combination: a bed frame having angle iron side rails and angle iron end rails, said rails 'being rigidly connected, the angle irons forming depending flanges; at least one of the side rails having a slot in its depending flange and adjacent the depending flange of the corresponding end rail; a bracket structure having a leg extending through the slot, as well as a leg for supporting the side rail, said second leg being parallel to the side rail; and means adjustably attaching the rst leg to the inner side of the depending flange of the said end rail.

3. In combination: angle iron side rails; angle iron end rails, said rails being permanently joined to form a bed frame; the angle irons having vertically extending flanges; Yat least one of the side rails having a slot in its vertical flange and adjacent the vertical flange of the corresponding end rail; a hook structure having a pair of legs at right angles to each other; one of the legs delining a hook and extending parallel to the side rail; the second leg extending through the slot in a direction may be provided. These transverse tothe side rail; said second leg lying adjacent 1,046,358 Wilsqn Dec. 3, 1912 the inner side of the vertical vleg of the said end rail; 1,235,679 Gerberich Aug. 7, 1917 and a slot and bolt connection between said second leg 1,518,970 Dyke Dec. 9, 1924 and the vertical flange of the said end rail, whereby the 1,551,984 Dyke Sept. 1, 1925 iatefal--position of the hookglegmmay be adjusted' with 5 2,311,111 Kelly Feb. 16, 1943 fespect-to the side rail. FOREIGN .PATENTS References Cited 'in the le of this patent 6,282 Great Britain 0f 11896 29,057 Australia k Apr. 30, 1931 Y UNI-TED STATES PATENTS 10 236,701 Great Britain July 16, 1925 713,374 Arn Nov. 11, 1902 822,999 smith June 12, 1906 

